One of my favorite voices, Sasaki Nozomi, will have a role in Yumeiro Pâtissière, starting with this Sunday's episode.She says she somehow was given the role of Youko, a "quiet, serious, intellectual" classmate of Ichigo's.This explains why Nozomi-chan and Yuuki Aoi went out to dinner together on Wednesday. When I first read about it in Aoi's blog, I was wondering how they knew each other. Ao-chan stars in Yumeiro.Nozomi-chan is best known for starring as Nanami in Bokura ga Ita and playing Patricia Martin in Lucky Star. When I first heard her burbling lisp, I thought it was the most moe voice ever.She is 26, and came to voice-acting late, after graduating from college and working part-time as a temple priestess and office lady. She is from Osaka, and attended a seiyuu workshop in Kobe run by director Daichi Keitarou, who liked her voice so much that he gave her an audition for Bokura ga Ita.On her agency page, she lists her skills as drawing and Shinto dance. Her interests are mock sword-fighting, reading, going to cafes, photography, and her blog. She has one of the most active of seiyuu blogs, posting at least daily, and has now begun posting almost non-stop on Twitter. For a while, I was worried that her career was going nowhere. She's not the world's greatest seiyuu. She just has this amazing voice, whose strong individuality is both a blessing and a curse. But now she has begun to get some classmate roles, and she can also play animals. She has a major role as a magical pink stuffed dog in the kids' anime Jewelpet, which is about to enter its second year. She had eight roles in 2009 and already has three this year.She calls herself "watashi" (the formal male way of saying "I") or "oji-san (the old guy)", as well as "number 500." This last refers to a bullet train that goes west from Tokyo through Osaka. Its cars are numbered in the 500s, and it is called the "Nozomi" ("Hope").From her blog, Nozomi-chan seems like a pleasant, friendly, somewhat sensual person, who is close to her family. She and Ao-chan went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. She says that they spent the time walking there bragging to each other about how little they ate. But once they got there, they ordered the big spread you see in the photo. Nozomi says it's not a problem for 17-year-old Ao-chan, who is "a growing girl." "The problem is for the old guy...." Both women seem to have some tendency to put on weight.Ao-chan had "lemon fried rice," Nozomi-chan had noodles. It's amazing how different the Japanese-style presentation makes Chinese food look in Japan. Ao-chan says that Nozomi-chan let her call her "Nozomi Onee-chan" ("Big Sister Nozomi").
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Series:
Bokura ga Ita
Lucky Star
Saki
